The International Youth Environmental Forum "One Planet - One Future!" is held at YuSU

Young ecologists from all over the country came to Khanty-Mansiysk. The forum participants were students of UNESCO Associated Schools, high school students and students of professional educational organizations, representatives of school forestries, volunteer associations and public environmental organizations of Yugra. This year the eco-forum is dedicated to the improvement of unique water bodies. The organizer of the forum is the Nature Supervision Authority of Yugra.

The events are held in Yugra State University. Conferences, courses, exhibitions, master classes discussing environmental volunteering, project technologies, mass media as a tool for positioning environmental activities, and much more. Forum participants told why they are passionate about ecology and shared their impressions of the eco-holiday.

"Nature needs help so that people pollute it as little as possible, because nature is like a mother to us. This is my first forum. I think it would be cool for the participating children to continue their education here," said seventh-grader Yana Bezushko from Megion.

Alexander Zaikin, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Ecology, organized an intellectual ecological game "Natural Selection" for the forum participants. The children impressed the jury with their erudition in the topics "Taiga" and "Boreal Forests".

"The concept of the intellectual eco-marathon assumes further annual competitions between teams of students of our city and in the future the region. This year, second-year students are invited to participate in the development of various interesting additional topics in the framework of project activities", - said Alexander Vasilievich.

The winners, who were the members of the Kopatychi team, received branded gifts. The participants of the eco-marathon were also invited to the open regional competition of research projects "Yugra. Ecology. Talents".

By the way, Tatiana Antyufeeva, Head of the Higher School of Ecology of Yugra Tatyana Antyufeeva informed about the contest at the round table devoted to the practice of Yugra in environmental education, informing children, teenagers and youth. Tatyana told in general about the experience of realization of the HSE projects. Thus, the higher school implements a program of educational ecotourism, which is one of the topics of project works of schoolchildren. The partners of the university are Nature Supervision Agency of Yugra and Samarovsky Chugas Nature Park, with which YuSU is developing the Forest Watch project.

HSE is also involved in the implementation of the Ecological Classroom project. Recently, the first of them was launched in Yugorsk. In the near future, such classes will appear in 10 more schools of the district. "We are interested in motivated children who want to come to us, who want to become highly qualified specialists. We enter two blocks: in the educational process through the organization of project activities. The second part is more extensive - extracurricular activities: excursions, etc. In this format, we are ready to share our expertise, experience, time. We pursue the main goal - to get good students," said Tatyana Antyufeeva.

On October 4, YuSU launches free online courses to prepare for the United State Exam in chemistry, biology, and geography. The project is implemented by several higher schools of Yugra State University, where the entrance test is one of these subjects. Tatyana Valeryevna also told that under the project "Yugra. Ecology. Talents" project again applied for the Governor's grant. Last time the project won a half-million dollar grant. Thanks to it, 250 young ecologists were gathered in Yugra State University, and each of them, in addition to impressions and new knowledge, took a gift with them.

A laboratory ecotour was organized for the forum participants. Lyubov Petrochenko, the head of the laboratory, introduced the children to the laboratory of applied ecology. Lyubov Viktorovna demonstrated microscopes, devices for measuring water, land, air pollution, and anemometer and told them how wastewater is mechanically treated.

Mikhail Kulyabin, a researcher of the Laboratory of Ecosystem-Atmospheric Relations of Forest-Swamp Complexes of YuSU, conducted a tour of the laboratory of ecological soil science. Here young ecologists learned how they study the conditions of growing plants in different substrates and under different lighting, study soil samples from field expeditions, about the properties of moss and what plants grow in it. Young ecologists received sphagnum, aloe and succulents as a gift. By the way, someone has already managed to give the plants a name.